fireclown:slayer199: Pretty much this. You know the government will find a way to exploit that GPS data if available.

It was the reason for my breakup with Progressive Flo.[www.curtisinsuranceagency.net image 314x319]

Ya broke my heart, Flo.

No me. I would do nasty, nasty things to Flo. I'd start by gently kissing her mega red lips and groping her more than ample behind. Slowly, I would work my way towards her hair bump which is where I would insert my manhood thrusting repeatedly while she yelled "I'll lower your insurance bill!! !" until I finally climaxed over her head and onto her FLO name tag on her until then, clean white smock.

FoxKelfonne:jaytkay: FoxKelfonne: So it's at least an 80% increase. Imagine the outrage if they suggested that you pay 80% more taxes in any other area.

Cuz paying an extra $80 is EXACTLY like having your entire income taxed another 80%.

I never suggested it was, but it's still an 80% tax increase, and it's pretty ridiculous. To use another "small tax" example. Current sales tax in Niagara County, NY is 8.75%. If both the state and county sales taxes increased by the same amount to result in an overall 80% increase in sales tax, you'd end up with a 15.75% sales tax rate.You can say that it's not a big deal, that you're now paying $1.16 for something that used to cost you $1.09, and that you're crying over pennies, but it adds up when you think of all the other taxes you already have to pay, and people even biatched when the sales tax went up from 8.5 to 8.75.

80% increase?

That's nothing.

When I lived in Michigan, they increased the sales tax 150%. It went from 4% to 6%. Amazingly, they called it a 2% increase in sales tax, which it also was.

ProfessorOhki:Girion47: MrSteve007: farkturf: It's only fair. All those 1 percenters who can afford Teslas and other electric cars don't have to pay gas taxes now. How else would we be able to pay for the highways once electric cars get cheap enough for the rabble to afford?

My all-electric Leaf only costs me $199 a month. How much a month do you spend on gas?

In my state the government already knows how many miles you drive. Once a year the inspection station plugs into your computer and gets a data dump. It would be easy to combine the mile tax and municipal property tax into one consolidated registration fee.

Or they could just take 1.5 cents per mile target revenue times typical miles per year and charge $200 per year to register a car.

What's a computer in the car? Oh you mean that biatch box in modern pussy vehicles. Yeah about that. Old vehicles don't have those.

I don't think it's enough to just pay by the mile. Let's keep the tax on gasoline, tax by the mile, and add tolls to all major highways.But exclude all road related taxes for people over 65./ why yes, I am over 65.

Doesn't the gas tax already tax you per mile driven? And at the same time that it encourages efficient vehicles? If there is a shortfall, the rate can be increased. I don't like the idea of a GPS dealiewhatsit logging all my travels to the feds.

OtherBrotherDarryl:How about a tax based on the number of miles driven but where there are incentives/penalties for driving more/less fuel efficient cars (ie, a gas tax).

I think the issue derives from the fact that nobody wants to raise the gas tax, and this would be a way to do so while letting your congressman argue "I didn't vote for no tax increases!" during his next reelection campaign.